Here comes the awful truth: I miss my cherished books about as much as I miss the warped Beatles LPs I left in my mother’s basement.

The smugness of The Wad out there is actually bitterly amusing to me.

Ask someone whose home has been destroyed by fire, flood, hurricane, or twister if they managed their life afterwards without traumatic pangs over losing their paper books.

Some of you are in for a shock down the road. You will lose your job, come to the point of losing your apartment, put your stuff in storage, wind up not having the money to pay for that storage, and you will lose everything. This has been the reality for millions of Americans.

So you better break that stupid attachment you have to artifacts.

Because it’s going to broken for you anyway.

As George Will points out in Newsweek, three years ago, Facebook had 50 million users, mostly under 24. Today, it has half a billion users, almost half of whom are over 35. It took 2½ years to sell three million iPods, two years to sell three million Kindles, and 80 days to sell three million iPads. It takes 30 seconds to download Moby Dick, and it costs $2.49.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Boldfaced emphasis added by me.

Every single one of you who consent to the violation of your innate human rights by the TSA have no business being in this country. You spit on those who died to make this country.

Michael J. Aguilar, chief of the TSA office in San Diego, called a news conference at the airport Monday afternoon to announce the probe. He said the investigation could lead to prosecution and civil penalties of up to $11,000.

TSA agents had told Tyner on Saturday that he could be fined up to $10,000.